Ball in election board’s court on Istanbul vote dispute

The hotly contested municipal elections in Istanbul will have to wait for the official announcement of the results by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) as both the government and the opposition have claimed victory, although initial results by the election watchdog show the latter's candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was ahead of the government's mayoral candidate, Binali Yıldırım, by around 25,000 votes.